The Cave

I'm playing this game on a Mac with an xbox 360 controller. It mostly works great and I really like it, but for some reason, when I push the Y button for the twins ghost ability, it just kills them. I wasn't able to solve any of their puzzles without unplugging the controller first and just using the keyboard. It doesn't ruin the game for me or anything, but it was kind of annoying before I figured it out.

same here; MAC and a 360controller. got stuck at the elevator in the Twins Mansion and never managed to do the trick to go up to the 2nd floor. after reeding this post I switched over to the keyboard and it just worked... hours of gameplay wasted but it least it worked!

got the same problem on mac with xbox 360 controller.switching back to keyboard worked fine, but switching back to controller, after the twins section, without restarting the game added the instant-kill invocation to every character change... ;)

Same problem here on Linux with 360 controller. I just thought the twins' special ability was to commit suicide and leave behind a ghost. It wasn't until I watched a tutorial and noticed that when using the ability they respawn at the same location.

Edit: I was able to fix this by remapping the insta-kill buttons (there is two for some reason?), they didn't conflict with the special ability but remapping them to the unused shoulder buttons let me use the special ability without respawning. Strange that this only affects the twins though.

I was having this same issue while playing this game on linux with an xbox controller and the default control settings. I was able to resolve it by changing the insta-kill button combo to use anything other than the analog triggers. After that I had no more problems.

I have the same issue on Linux with the 360 contorller but will try to remap keys for instant kill.It's worth noting i did try unpluging the controller an using the keyboard but still having an issue of after you change though you characters on the 3rd that character does an instant kill.

Same problem. I finally looked into a walkthrough after wandering in the house for 30 minutes because I thought I misunderstood the twins power and discovered they were not supposed to die when using it...

So, reassigning the instant death to the side buttons rather than the side triggers fixed the problem. Using a XBox 360 wired controller on Ubuntu Linux.